Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 5, 2026
ZTG, August 5: a run to $6.92
ZTG opened near its previous close, then ran to $6.92 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $5.68, on 4K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $5.43. It ran to $6.92 by 3:02 p.m.
The close
It closed at $6.76, near its high.
What to take from it: The move came during the session, not at the open.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Intraday run. It opened down 4.4% at $5.43, then ran from the open to the high of $6.92 in 332 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:44 a.m. | Pre-market high, $5.68 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $5.43, down 4.4% from the previous close |
| 2:56 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $5.68 |
| 3:02 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $6.92 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $6.76, 2.3% below the high |
The shape's name comes from a fixed rule, not a judgement (how shapes are named). Halts are in the halt table below.
The day in numbers
- Previous close
- $5.68
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $5.43
- Gap at the open
- −4.4%
- Pre-market high
- $5.68 at 4:44 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $6.92 at 3:02 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $5.20
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $6.76
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +19.0%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $6.90 at 7:14 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.14 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 13,864
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 5.4×
- Float
- 4.07 million shares, from filings as of August 5, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 11.58 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 4,081 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 109,513 in the first 30 minutes (9%), and 1.04 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (90%).
- Other days ZTG met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 10, the latest on October 16, 2026.
- The next session, August 6, 2026, it was up 46.9% from its previous close at the 4:00 p.m. close.
On the day's lists: the gainers. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the gainers: price $2 to $20, up 10% or more, relative volume 5× or more, float under 20 million shares, its high reached $1 or more and it started the day at $20 or under (the rule every page uses).
Halts (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for ZTG that day.
Halt bands that day: the LULD plan's Amendment 18 rules (what that means, LULD calculator).
How we read the data, name a day's shape and pick the stocks: methodology.
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